Alexandria team provides Basketball World Cup with buses

CAIRO – 1 July 2017: Al Ittihad basketball club, from Alexandria, will support the Under-19 (U19) Basketball World Cup by contributing five buses to transport the players of the participating teams.

The FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup will be held in Cairo July 1-9. The games will be played played in the covered hall complex at Cairo International Stadium.

Al Ittihad will provide the organizing committee with five of the club's buses to help in transporting the participating teams from the hotels to the stadium. The busses will start service for the opening game between Egypt’s national team and Puerto Rico at 8:30 p.m. Cairo time on Saturday, according to Super Kora.

The tournament includes 16 countries from all over the world divided in 4 groups of four teams each. Egypt plays in group B with Germany, Puerto Rico and Lithuania.